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The Joint Service Housing Advice Office (JSHAO) – Helping you to civilian housing solutions.


What is the JSHAO? The JSHAO provides Service persons and their dependants with housing information and advice. We also, where possible, help you to obtain placement in social housing on leaving the Service. We help army welfare/compassionate cases and separated families from overseas to find appropriate housing on return to the UK.


Helping you to civilian accommodation The JSHAO runs ‘Housing Solutions’ and “Housing Options” briefings for Service Personnel. The Solutions briefings are designed as mid career presentations to highlight the need to make early provision for your civilian housing. The ‘Housing the Options’ courses are run in Resettlement Centres in the UK and Education Centres in Germany, Cyprus and Gibraltar. These one day courses are designed to give you the information to help you make informed choices on your civilian housing. While these are normally attended in the last 2 years of Service, any Service person and/or their partner is welcome at any stage of their Service.


What information do we hold? We have information and contacts for most of the UK’s social housing sector which includes council housing and housing association homes. We can provide you with pamphlets and information sheets on the multitude of different subjects regarding housing provision. Very often these days we will direct you to the appropriate web site. All this information is available to you, just call or e-mail our office.


The MOD Referral Scheme The JSHAO runs the Ministry of Defence Referral scheme. This scheme may be able to help you if you are looking for housing association housing on leaving the Service. Information and an application form can be found on our website or call the office and talk to one of our staff.


Low Cost Home Ownership With house prices as high as they have been recently lots of Service personnel express interest in schemes which share the cost of housing with some form of government backed part ownership plan. HomeBuy helps successful applicants to buy their home using a government interest free loan to fund part of the property. These schemes are generically known as HomeBuy schemes. Service personnel are recognised as Key Workers and as such have priority access to some schemes. For details of the schemes and options go to the JSHAO website. If you have any queries then come back to the JSHAO staff with them. If you are occupying council housing the Right to Buy scheme is still available in most parts of the country. We can advise you on all these options and where they are available in the UK.


Buying your own house


Buying a house is one of the most exciting things you ever do. However, it is also one of the most daunting. The JSHAO has factsheets that explain the process. We can advise on websites you will find useful to get details of properties, solicitors and surveyors. We can even point you to a number of helpful individuals who can assist


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